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 CODA : Another day in Palm Coast

18 November 2024

Palm Coast Marina, Palm Coast, Florida   

A new friend on a neighbor's boat.  This great blue heron poses well.

Marc-  Today was our first day of preparing Coda for her wet storage here in Florida.  Since we have done this before we know what to do.  We've arranged to leave one air conditioning unit on dehumidify while we're gone.  We changed out the dozen damp-rid buckets in all sorts of hidden parts off this boat.  It is early to change the oil so we will wait on that.  I had time to do some varnishing and add special enzyme treatment to the diesel fuel tanks.

Our two trips today were going to Home Depot on foot for needed supplies, and going for a bike ride for exercise.   The bike ride was certainly more fun.  Palm Coast has extensive bike paths that are a web of trails.  Our favorite bike path took us down a four mile elevated 10 foot wide boardwalk in the middle of a tropical forest.  We did several other small trails, 15 miles in total, and then returned home to Coda for dinner.

We saw this exotic purple berry bush on our way to Home Depot.

Enter through here for a magical mystery bike tour.

This sign kind of hints of what's in store for you in Palm Coast (the Monarch butterflies have stopped in on their migration and so have lots of birds).

People here take cycling seriously.  The City has invested heavily in at least 100 miles of bike paths.

Intriguing sky cloud cover today.

We took a walk to this nearby assemblage of shops and restaurants.  Unfortunately is was fairly quiet on a Monday.  There were a few pubs open and maybe a Sushi restaurant.

Inside the courtyard time stood still.

Quiet time.  

To be fair:  the place was quite busy on Sunday with a day long farmer's market and all of the restaurants and shops open.

Lou- My mom asked me what I thought of this place and I said, "I rate it high on nature, but low for culture!" 

"It's a nowhere man, nowheresville place," she agreed.

It seems like people come to their condos here and enjoy the warmth and beauty, but don't do much communally/create art. Totally fair to just want to chill out, but the lack of enterprise creates a sort of spooky soulless feeling-- at least in the European Village tonight!

The bike paths rule though! This is the best cycling day we've had since Jekyll! 

A new friend of dad's recommended a path with long stretches of boardwalks, which are one of my favorite things ever, especially in a beautiful, green place.